Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-27


which the Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, D.
d, is pastor have gone to the country
for the summer, but still the great throngs
Of people that for eighteen years have
been seen in and around Brooklyn Taber
nacle on SABBATH days are found there.
1t is estimated that about 100000 stran
gers have visited this church during the
past wear Tie hymn sung this morning
was
salvation. oh, the j1vful sound
It's pleasure TO our ears;
A SOVEREIGN balm for every wound
a cordial tOr our Tears.
Dr.. Talmage's text was: "He was
mighty hunter before the Lord. Gen
esis X, g. He said:
In our day hunting is sport; but in
lands and the times infested with wild
beasts, II was q matter of life or death
with the people. 1t was very different
from going cut on e sunshiny afternoon
with Il patent 5reeCh loader to shoot reed
birds on the fats, when PollUX and
Achilles aud Diomedes went out to clear
the land Of lions and tigers and bears.
NV text sets forth Nimrod hero when it
presents him with broad shoulders and
shaggy apparel, and sunbroWned face,
ald srm punched with muscles-"a
mlE5ty hunter before the Lord" | think
NE used the bow and arrow with great
success pEaCtiCing archery.
I nave thought if it is such q grand
tn!ng and such q brave thing 70 clear
Wild beasts OUt OF g country if it is not
3 better and drawer thing to hunt down
and destroy those crest evils of society
1nst are stalking the land with fierce eye
and bloody paw, and sharp tusk and
quick spring. l have wondered if there
S not such thing as Gospel hunting, by
Which taOse who have been flying from
the truth may be captured for God and
heaven The Lord Jesus in His sermon
used lBe arr OF angling as an illustration
when He said; ~ viii make you fishers
of men " And SO | think have author
5cv for using hunting for an Illustration
Of Gospel truth; and pray God that
there may be many man in this congTe-
cation who shall begin to study Gospel
archery, Of whom =. may, after awhile, be
said He was mighty hunter before
the Lord"
Hoy much awkward Christian work
there is done IN the world. How many
good people there are who drive souls
AWAY FROM CHRIST
instead CT bringing them to Him, Re-
fgious b,unGerers who upset more than
thew right Their gun has q crooked bar
rel. ard hicks as il goes of. They are
ike clumsy cOmraGe who goes along
with sSilful hunters; a. the very moment
he ought 20 be most quiet, he IS cracking
an alder or falling over o log and fright
euing sway the game. How few Christ
ian people have ever learned the lesson OF
which [ read a. the beginning Of the ser
I'D
Enlist ct the well went from
TALKING about cup OF water
10 me most practical religious truths,
which won the wCmSn's soul for God
Jesus in the wilderness was breaking
bread 70 the people. l think it was good
bread i was very light bresd, and the
Yeast had done its work thoroughly.
Christ. after He had broken the bread,
sa.c 10 the people: "Beware of the
Yeast, or Of the leGven of the Pnarisees.' -
So natural transition it was, and how
easily they all understood Hin But how
few Christian people who understand
how to fasten the truths of God and re
ngion 90 the souls OF men! Truman OS-
borne, one OF the evaDgeliSts who went
through this country some years sgO,
had q wonderful art in the right direc-
tiou He came to my fathers house one
day, and, while We were all seated in the
room, said "Mr. Talmage, are all yOul
children ChristiaGs?" Father said
"Yes, ali but Dewitt Then Truman Os
borne looked down into the Gre place, anC
began 20 tell 8 story Of e storm that
came on the mountains, and sll sheer
were In the fold; but there was one lamb
outside that persisted in tie storm. HaC
he looked MT il the eye, should have
been 8Ggsred when he told me that story
out ne looked into the fireplace, and i
vas so patleCica!ly sud beautifully done
thGt l never found any peace until l wa:
sure l was inside the fold, where the
ether sheep are.
The srchegs Of cid times studied thei1
art. They were very precise in the mat
ter, IhC cd books gave special direc
tionS As TO now lGe archer should 90, anC
as 10 what an archer should do. H.
must stand erect and firm, his left foot
little IL advance Of his right foot. Wit
his left hand he must take mold OF TIT
BOW in the middle, and then with thi
three fingers ard the thumb OF his RICH
nand he should isy hold of the arrow anC
StfiG II 10 the s,Ting-sO precise was TIT
direction given. But how clumsy WI
2re about religious work! How little
skill and care We exercise. How Otter
our arrows miss the mark! Oh, that W.
might learn
TUE ART OF DOING GOOD
and become "mighty hunters before tn
Lord"
In the first place, if you want to be eff
tectual in doing good, you must be yer
sure Of your weapon. There was some
thing very fascinating about the archer
of 0lden times Perhaps you do nc
know what they could do with the boz
and arrow. Why the chief battles fougt
bv the English PIantGgenets were with tn
long bow. They would take the arro'
OF polished wood, and feather
with the plume of bird, and then
would fl from the bow-string Of platte
silk Tire broad fields of Agincourt, sn
Solway Moss, and Neville's Cross he ar
the loud tnrum of the ercher's bow
string. Now, my Christian friends, W
have mghter weapon than that 1t
the arrow Of the gospel; it is q shar
arrow; it is 8 straight arrow; it
feathered from the wing of the dove {
Gods spirit; it flies from bow mad
out OF the wood Of the cross. As far as
can estimate or calculate, it has brough
down 400, 900, 00G souls. Paul knew no
10 bring he notch of that arrow on
that bow string, and its whirr was hear
through the Corinthian theaters, an